3C 305, also known as IC 1065, is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is located 577 million light-years away from Earth. It has an active galactic nucleus and is classified as a Seyfert 2 galaxy. This galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on April 7, 1888.
3C 305 is also a radio galaxy. It shows an extended X-ray halo previously detected by Chandra X-ray and Very Large Array observations and hydrogen outflow with a jet power of ~1043 erg s−1.
In additional, 3C 305 shows broad HI absorption levels, which researchers interpreted it as jet-cloud interaction. There are also signs that 3C 305 might be involved in a recent merger process with another gas-rich galaxy.
